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OLPAD-ONGOLE. 423 Olpád.-Sub-division of Surat District, Bombay Presidency. Bounded on the north by the river Kim; on the east by Baroda territory; on the south by the Tápti; and on the west by the Gulf of Canbay. Area, 323 square miles. Population (1872) 57,812 ; (1881) 62,049, namely, 30,824 males and 31,225 females, (welling in 120 villages, containing 12,782 houses. Hindus number 56,179; Muhammadans, 3711 ; and others,' 2159. The Sub-clivision forms an almost unbroken plain, and the fields are generally unenclosed owing to the low level and the inroads of the sea; well irrigation is possible only in a few of the eastern villages. Climate generally healthy. Average rainfall, 30 inches. The Sub-division was surveyed and settled in 1869-70 for a period of 30 years. Total area, 326 square miles, of which 7 sejuare miles are occupied by the lands of alienated villages. Of a total of 100,444 acres held for tillage in 1873–74, 17,740 acres were fillow or under grass. Of the remainder, 82,704 acres were under actual cultivation, and 1192 acres were under second crop; grain crops occupied 48,837 acres ; pulses, 7776 acres; oil-seeds, 3014 acres; fibres, 22,326 acres, of which 22,32 1 were under cotton; and miscellaneous crops, 1943 acres. In 1869 the survey disclosed 13.832 holdings, with an average area of 9 acres each, and paying an average Government land revenue of £t, is. 8d. The Sub-division in 1883 contained i civil and 2 criminal courts; police circles (thánus), 1 ; regular police, ti men; village watch (chaukidúrs), 711. Land revenue, £58,492. Olpad.-Head-quarters of Olpad Sub-division, Surat District, Bombay Presidency ; situated in lat. 21° 21' N., and long. 72° 48' E. Population (1972) 1001. Not returned in the Census Report of 1881. Besides the ordinary Sub-divisional revenue and police offices, the town is provided with a post-office and dispensary. Omatwára. --- Tract of country in Málwá, Central India, lying between 23° 35' and 24° 11' n. lat., and between 70° 23' and 77° 16 E. lony. ; length from north to south, 60 miles ; breadth, 55 miles. It includes the Native States of Rájgarh and Narsinghgarh, and parts of Indore and Gwalior ; the two former States are under the political superintendence of the Bhopál Agency. The tract takes its naine from the Omat Rajputs, a sept of the great Pranara clan, who enigrated from Udaipur (Oodeypore) at an early period, and, during the decline of the Mughal Empire, overran and subjugated this part of the country: Principal towns—RAJGARH and NARSINGHGARH. Ongole.— Táluk or Sub-division of Nellore District, Vadras Presidency. Area, 797 square miles. Population (1881) 188,593, namely, 94.348 males and 94,245 females, dwelling in 2 towns and 166 villages, containing 34,404 houses. Hindus number 176,888; Muhanımadans, 6367; Christians, 5131; and 'others,' 7. Ongole táluk consists of an